Customs
of Zoroastrians :
The customs of Zoroastrians include :
Ceremony : The General Term used for Ceremony is Avestan/ Yasna.
The word Yasna compounds to the Sanskrit word meaning - Yagna -
Sacrifice or Worship. The Zoroastrians ceremonies generally include :
Purificatory Rituals, Initiation and Marriage Ceremonies, Thanksgiving,
Invocatory and Dedicatory Ceremonies, Ceremonies for departed persons
and ceremonies for consecrational of places of worship.
Funeral Ceremony : Zoroastrians believe that the soul of the
departed person keeps revolving around the body till three days of its
death to re - enter the body. For this they Zoroastrians keep the bodies
in Tower of Silence, where they are eaten away by the Vultures and other
Carnivores birds. But this is practiced only in India and Iran.
